LionOfGosforth

Stupid prick right back

Until it is no longer a possibility, i'm going to hope for that. Rafa definitely seems to have mellowed a little over the years and since his Liverpool days

Benitez has to revisit this one, like. Seems very doubtful, think his mind is made up and that's a real pity, someone is going to get a very good goalscorer and god knows what we'll end up with. I think it's telling that with his recent record, if he played for another club, would we have a hope in hell of signing him? Nope.

Even though I don't rate him, I probably agree with you. Would genuinely love to know why people don’t rate him. Young forward, superb in the air, bangs in goals in every team he’s played for. What’s not to like? Maybe missing a bit of tactical discipline? In a young lad, surely that can be taught? Because we've rarely seen this kind of form/finishing from him in a black and white shirt, people seem to forget how poor he was for us in the Chamionship. That said, would definitely like to see him given another chance here, as let's face it, we'll not be spending £20m plus on a striker anytime soon. I honestly think that's because he's never been given enough consistent opportunities. Anecdotally, he only ever seemed to get 4-5 games before one poor performance or a daft booking landed him on the bench to not be seen for months. I think he only actually started something like 11 games in the Championship. I also think people seem to forget he was only 21 or something when he arrived but expected to solve all our forward problems in a useless Mclaren team. Hiding to nothing and he did more than ok. Seems to me, he's been given the shortest rope of any player in recent memory, by many fans and manager.

We should be sat watching this game, proud that one of our young players is making his mark at the world cup now and looking forward to him doing the same this coming season. Instead, we're contemplating how much we can get for him (that we won't fucking spend anyway) and wondering what bargain basement hopeless prick we'll "replace" him with. Mad.

Even though I don't rate him, I probably agree with you. Would genuinely love to know why people don’t rate him. Young forward, superb in the air, bangs in goals in every team he’s played for. What’s not to like? Maybe missing a bit of tactical discipline? In a young lad, surely that can be taught?

Aye but Gayle and Hoss-a-fuckin-loo work hard man

30m+ now, all the more for Rafa to not receive

----------------------- Let's just all agree that PAEDOPHILES ARE WRONG, aye? One thing I will say is that I don't think KI is talking about you Lion of Gosforth. He's referring back to times when me KI, Deuce, B-More and co go radge at each other over PC shenanigans. I look forward to the next one. Clearer, confusion reigned because I was discussing it with you too, rationally I thought

When this is typical of the UK in general, where the fuck does the country go from here? Can we go any more downhill?

Christ, wish I knew more about the hotel radiators like

Yup

They were very clearly saying these things in response to hans' statement that he would willingly aid and abet a paedophile given the opportunity. Weird craic like, as if showing basic human decency and debating this is something to be alarmed and ashamed about. I didn't even think Hans was trying to agree, more that he understood the indecision and therefore, as it's a forum and the question arose, we debated it in a friendly manner. Then KI comes in windmilling aal ower claiming we're showing off and calling us weirdos

What a strange and needlessly antagonistic thing to say. Like there's some other way to respond. Making a mental note here to only make revolutionary comments in future when it comes to discussing child abuse from the 90's. Anything else just isn't meaningful or worthwhile

I expected him to have no evidence, that’s the point, he’d heard rumours. So what do you do if you hear your mate is a nonce? In the real world, not in the world where you’re some kind of moral prophet? I like to think I'd do the right thing. And I'd like to think I'd be raked over the coals if I didn't. And you might do the right thing, you shouldn't be raked over the coals for not though, <b> its a perfectly natural reaction to not know how to react in a situation like that.</b> Totally true, i'd be a basket case if it were someone I knew. I'd still do something, report it to the club, at least begin an internal investigation. You just have to, even if it's only an allegation at that point, the ramifications of doing nothing if it turned out to be true are too damaging.

I expected him to have no evidence, that’s the point, he’d heard rumours. So what do you do if you hear your mate is a nonce? In the real world, not in the world where you’re some kind of moral prophet? I'd suggest being intelligent enough about it to have discreet discussions with the club a.k.a do the right thing, taking care of innocents probably too scared to help themselves. If the bloke's innocent, there should never have been a problem with that. It's pretty damn rare i'd think that those types of allegations are false or at the least, based in truth. An immediate internal investigation would have resulted and this would have gone in the right direction. No other way to handle it. Doing anything else is indefensible really and just makes you seem like an accessory.

The article makes it pretty clear reading between the lines that he hesitated to do owt because they were "good friends". Needing time to digest information like that is bollocks like. Fine gan home, sleep on it maybe, but then you speak up. It's too fucking heinous an allegation to leave on the back burner coz your pals with the bloke.

Course it's a hard issue to solve, no argument there at all. But what you should never ever do, is nothing at all. Pretty simple and there'd be no beef with the thick twat at all if he'd at least investigated right away. Needed "time to digest", Christ.

Yep must be dinked.

Pretty sure he finished a 1v1 at the start of the season against West Ham. May not have been dinked as per your requirements, but it was a composed finish.

The only two people who clearly know anything are the fouler and the fouled but to me he pretty obviously didn’t lose his balance, it’s scandalously practiced and deliberate. Most of the time when you’re fouled, you can’t control your body shape at all, some of these fuckers turn it into a Superman impression. That cunt for Iran late in the game yesterday rolled about 19 times after a trip with a look on his face like he’d been stabbed. Can’t really prove any of it like

The replay shows the ball deviates slightly which means he touched the ball. They fucked up. Touching a ball slightly doesnt mean that it isnt a foul.. It means he won the ball so unless it was reckless (or he does something else like pull the player down with his arm) then aye it literally does. No it doesnt. The follow through clips Griezmann's legs when he is clean through. 100% penalty. The follow up had about as much purchase as a hair. I'm sick of this whole contact=foul nonsense. The game's dead when fans of the game are perpetuating this bollocks. Agree 100%. There wasn't enough contact there to trip a fucking mouse man. Just shows what a bastard this is to get this right though, can't even be certain with slow motion replays, because these players are so conditioned to go down under the tiniest contact or to even initiate the contact in the first place.

This commentator on FS1 is fucking appalling

Yeah Looks handy on limited viewing, think he’s rated around the 30m+ bracket though which maybe, just maybe rules us out

Is Sisto the player we were (very loosely) linked with?